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What open data policies can and should do

How might you use the Open Data Policy Guidelines?
To define open data
To understand why open data is useful
To make open data
To share with policy makers
Authored by Laurenellen McCann, national policy manager for the Sunlight Foundation.
As more communities recognize the power and possibilities of sharing public data online, there is an increasing need to articulate what it means to open data—and how to create policies that can not only support these efforts, but do so in a sustainable and ambitious way.